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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Facebook Phone: Will You Buy One?

By Eddie Jones


Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg said constructing a full mobile does not make sense for the social networking service provider.

Despite a study Wednesday that Facebook could launch its own component manufactured by HTC as early as mid-2013, Zuckerberg said a Facebook phone is not currently in the cards. At least not one developed entirely by the Menlo Park, Calif., provider.

After being asked which was even more vital-- having an entire smartphone feel, becoming an app or being a system that feeds in to many programs-- Zuckerberg pointed out that in the meantime, the provider desires to concentrate on raising "the depth of the sensation in addition to simply growing individuals."

Zuckerberg stated that now, Facebook is concentrated even more on combining itself into other smartphones as much as possible than on building its very own device.

"You'll view us do things such as support Apple in the iOS combination that they wished to do," the Facebook co-founder said. "There are lots of points that you can easily build in additional operating system as well that aren't actually building out an entire mobile phone, which I think really most likely would not make much sense for us to do."

Yet eventhough it seems to be the option of smartphone production has been tossed out the window, a few of Zuckerberg's text raises the concern: Is Facebook building an operating system?

"We want to support an advancement ecosystem where other apps can easily construct on top of Facebook," Zuckerberg said simply before the prior quote.

And later in his answer, Zuckerberg discussed why all this integration provides a fantastic opportunity for Facebook. Yet those exact same points are even purposes a Facebook smartphone could possibly make sense for the business.

"There's a significant chance for us here," he pointed out. "The volume of time that individuals spend in the applications is more significant; individuals pertain to the applications as well as utilize Facebook much more when they have mobile telephones."

Irrespective, Zuckerberg wasn't bashful about just how important mobile is to Facebook, as well as it seems the business has significant strategies.

"If you make use of the applications nowadays, they're reasonably standard compared to just what I believe anybody can easily envision they would certainly prefer from a Facebook experience on a smartphone," he stated.




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